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Food
Fallers - eat(game, roots, berries, nuts, honey), drink(tsama melon, milk, roots, blood, stomach juices, water)
Lee - Mongongo Nuts 300 - 400 day
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Shelter
Fallers - was easy to move because they moved to where they could get food - grass hut
Lee - grass huts using sapplings as foundation for huts
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Clothing
Fallers - antelope hide, any animal skins they find
Lee - loin cloths, corros - can be a bag or blanket
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Basic needs are achieved by
Fallers - hunting & gathering
Lee - hunting & gathering 2 - 3 times a week
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Specialized jobs
Fallers - butcher, hunter, gatherer, headman
Lee - medicine man
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Technology
Fallers - Bow & Arrows, pockets to carry things, trading metal with people, axes, knives, scrapers, digging sticks, grob for poison, spears
Lee - Digging sticks, bow & arrow, hunting dogs, rope, trapping of animals, hand axe, pots & cups, beadwork, leather pouch.
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Family System
Fallers - Nuclear
Lee -
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Roles Women
Fallers - gather roots, berries and melons, set up traps for catching animals, build shelters, takes care of fire wood
Lee -
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Roles Men
Fallers - do most of the hunting & gather honey
Lee - gather & hunting
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Roles Elders
Fallers -
Lee -
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Roles Children
Fallers -
Lee - play games
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Government society is ruled by
Fallers - A single person that is handed down the job from elders.
Lee -
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Religion
Fallers - Nothing noted
Lee - Nothing noted
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Entertainment
Fallers - decorative ordiments
Lee - snoke & talk around fire, telling stories, dancing
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Changes in the kalahari
- Marshall
- 1. Cattle in the desert
- 2. Southwest Africa is now Namibia
- 3. Western clothing
- 4. Live on a mission station (kung & gikwe)
- 5. Live on farms (kung & gikwe)
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Crimes
- 1. Refused to contribute to molimo basket
- 2. Placed net in front of groups net.
- 3. Make seperate camp.
- 4. Not share food
- 5. Complained
- 6. Called himself a chief
- 7. Spoke of a dead persons name
- 8. denied himself from his mother
- 9. Didn't participate in ceremony
- 10. Didn't go with group to light hunt fire
- 11. Discraced other hunters
- 12. Mistreated relatives
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Punishment
- 1. Treat him like an animal
- 2. Took his food
- 3. Sit on ground
- 4. Threaten to "kick him out" of the tribe
- 5. Said he was not a mbuti
- 6. Spat at his name
- 7. The hairy fist
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Tales of the Mbuti
How a young Mbuti became a great hunger
- Target age - young kids 6,7,8 years old
- One child stayed with father
- chimp fell into net
- other chimp took child
- chimp told child to scratch his back
- kid took branch (itch bugs)
- kid speared chimp
- Dad delighted
- Uncle brought kid down
- Told whole camp
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Lesson
- 1. Even though your young you can hunt
- 2. Quick Thinker
- 3. Watch out for chimp
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Chimp who killed Mbuti with his own spear
- Mbuti walked through woods
- watched chimps play
- chimp spoted him
- chimp "we will fight"
- root of forrest = spear
- killed all but 1 chimp
- Mbuti set down spear
- chimp picked up spear killed Mbuti
- Brother went to find him
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Lesson
- 1. Don't leave spear lying around
- 2. Don't go into forest alone.
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